Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780805095159
Category
Human Services
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Publication Year
2014
Publisher
Pages
300
Description
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande explores the failures of modern medicine when faced with a problem that it cannot solve – that of human mortality. After a brief background history of disease and old age, Gawande criticizes the current state of end-of-life care – nursing homes where patients are deprived of purpose and independence and hospitals where they receive treatments that destroy their quality of life in return for a sliver of chance of prolonging their lives. Drawing from research, interviews with caregivers, and case studies of patients facing their own deaths, Gawande makes the case that end-of-life care should allow patients to spend the time that they have left doing what makes them happy and gives their lives meaning.
Number of Copies
1
